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impressionable

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im·pres·sion·a·ble  (m-prsh-n-bl)
adj.
1. Readily or easily influenced; suggestible: impressionable young people.
2. Capable of receiving an impression; plastic: impressionable plaster.
im·pression·a·bili·ty n.
impressionable
Adjective
easily impressed or influenced: the promotion of smoking to the impressionable young
impressionability n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.impressionable - easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age"; "a waxy mind"
impressible, waxy
unimpressionable - not sensitive or susceptible to impression; "an unimpressionable mind"
impressionable
adjective suggestible, vulnerable, susceptible, open, sensitive, responsive, receptive, gullible, ingenuous << OPPOSITE blasé
Translations
impressionable [ɪmˈprɛʃnəbl] adj → impresionable
impressionable [ɪmˈprɛʃnəbl] adj → impressionnable, sensible
impressionable [ɪmˈprɛʃnəbl] impression adj → leicht zu beeindrucken
impressionable [ɪmˈprɛʃnəbl] adj → impressionabile


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Every young man who came to the house- seeing those impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of young girls ready for anything and full of hope- experienced the same feeling; sharing with the young folk of the Rostovs' household a readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
So impressionable a being is man, or at least such a man as I was in those days.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
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